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Apps Rush: Kingdom of Plants, Sidecar.me, Nike Golf 360°, Louboutin, Beyonce, eWowBooks and more

What’s new on the app stores on Wednesday 23 May 2012

A selection of 23 new and notable apps for you today:

Kingdom of Plants with David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough’s new TV show is airing on Sky rather than the BBC, which is a sign of the times. As is the official iPad app, which blends text, videos and panoramic photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.
iPad

Sidecar.me

Aiming to provide “smart calling for your smartphone”, Sidecar is the latest Voice-over-IP app looking to add extra features to standard voice calls. In this case, that includes the ability to share live video, photos and location data while chatting. It’s free to use with other Sidecar users.
Android / iPhone

Nike Golf 360°

At the time of writing, Nike’s new golf app appears to be a US-only affair. It tracks your rounds and statistics, uploading everything to the NG360° website for later analysis. Swing videos can be uploaded and analysed too, with golf-focused workouts and tips also included.
iPhone

Mass Effect: Infiltrator

Another treat for hardcore gamers on Android devices, as EA brings its latest Mass Effect game to Google-powered devices. That means spiffing graphics, touchscreen-optimised controls and lots – LOTS – of shooting.
Android

Louboutin

Shoes! Posh shoes, at that. Fashion label Christian Louboutin has an official app showing off its latest collection, including designers’ sketches, a store locator, and a wish list feature to store details of your favourites.
iPhone

Kate

The Daily Mail is the latest newspaper looking into one-shot apps for iPad, with its tribute to the Duchess of Cambridge. It offers articles and photos from the year since her marriage to Prince William, with a focus on her frocks.
iPad

#BeyHive

Hashtags in app titles? That’s 2012 for you. This app is a fan-project devoted to all things Beyonce, offering “a social network” for fans around the world. They sign in using Twitter, then get news, photos, links to music and the ability to earn points for their fandom.
Android / iPhone

Euro Finals from Betfair

Gambling service Betfair has a new app dedicated to the Euro 2012 football tournament, giving a quick way to access all its markets around the finals, place bets and then cash out from the device.
iPhone

Red Bull Racing Spy

Red Bull has launched a new Formula 1 app, promising news, gossip and party photos from the F1 circuit. The spy of the title is Red Bull’s “man on the inside”, who’s also running his own Twitter account.
iPhone / iPad

Trailr

Here’s an interesting use for image recognition technology: an iPhone app that when pointed at a movie poster, advertisement or DVD cover, searches for and plays its video trailer. It’s the work of LTU Technologies – a showcase for the company’s in-house tech.
iPhone

Clueful

Spooked by reports earlier in 2012 about how apps are sharing your personal data? Clueful is an iPhone app that aims to show you what apps are running in memory, and what they’re doing with your data. It can also be used as a reference guide before installing an app, to see what it does.
iPhone

AT&T mHealth

This is only available in the US for people with an invitation from their employer or health management company, but it’s still something to track. AT&T’s mobile health app focuses on diabetes, helping people manage their condition, track their blood glucose levels, and share data with medical staff.
Android

eWowBooks

The latest startup looking to provide a book-apps platform on iOS is eWowBooks. Its app is out now, including a 30-page story called My Random Digi-Life, aimed at young readers. It blends animation, interactivity and social features. Going forward, the company is hoping to work with other publishers and authors to get new stories onto the platform.
iPad

BitPix

Photo-sharing app BitPix might not end up being sold to Facebook for $1bn, but it looks good fun. It turns photos into “8-bit goodness” with visual filters based on vintage consoles and computers.
iPhone

Samplodica

The latest innovative iPhone music-creation app is Samplodica, which offers a selection of digital instruments, as well as the option to record your own samples – all played by “whipping your iPhone in the air, like a rhythm egg or a drum stick”.
iPhone

Digifit iCardio

Fitness app iCardio has made its debut on Android, helping you track cardio workouts “indoors and out”, mapping the latter and sharing (well, bragging) about runs, rows and other exercises on Twitter and Facebook. It works with Polar’s Bluetooth heart rate monitor too, to track your heart rate.
Android

WeAreTennis by BNP Paribas

Tennis buffs getting ready for the summer season should love the WeAreTennis app, which promises news, live scores from major tournaments, and push alerts from individual players. There’s also a social feature to make your own commentary for classic match moments and share the results with friends.
iPhone / iPad

Men In Black 3

Gameloft bagged the licence for an official mobile game based on the new Men In Black 3 film. It sees you building and running a Men In Black agency, as well as whizzing around New York to fight aliens. The link above is for Android but here’s the iOS version.
Android / iPhone / iPad

Skyrise Runner

Protect the forests in this environmentally-sound Android game, which offers lush side-scrolling platform action with crystals to collect and great eagles to, er, morph into.
Android

Perrette and the Pot of Milk

The flow of high-quality kid-apps from iOS to Android is improving, with Perrette and the Pot of Milk the latest example. Offering a choice of English, French, Spanish and Arabic, it’s an adaptation of a famous story, with 50 interactive illustrations.
Android

Rocka Bowling 3D

This 3D bowling game for iOS offers a six-person local multiplayer mode, and uses a freemium model funded by in-app purchases of bowling alleys, pins and balls. iOS developers may smile at the developer’s attempt to ensure it’s found on the App Store – the developer is listed as ‘Best 3D Bowling Game Arcade, Action & Sports Free Game – Flick Ball Online Multiplayer! A Ten 10 pins best game for Kids! The sudoku Puzzle Free Games! Bowling Games! Funny Cool Fun Free Apps! Free App Creation Company’.
iPhone / iPad

Moosejaw Sweaty And Wet

Outdoor gear and clothing firm Moosejaw has released a new augmented reality app for its summer collection, which involves virtually soaking the models with water. Dreadfully sexist? Well, the models are male and female…
iPhone / iPad

Hooters Calendar Sexy Screen Wash HD

Well, indeed. Included here purely for its disclaimer text: “This application does not actually wash or clean your iPad screen. However, this application includes a video of a talented model/actress simulating a screen wash.”
iPad


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Apps Rush: The Sandbox, 101 Ideas: Flying With Kids, Calpol and more

What’s new on the app stores on Tuesday 22 May 2012

It had to happen eventually: a slow apps day, with just five new and notable apps to tell you about:

The Sandbox

There are plenty of Minecraft clones in the apps world, but The Sandbox does something different with the pixelly world-building genre. It’s a “physics sandbox” that aims to get you creating your own universe, from mud and sand to plants, walls, metal and, er, light bulbs.
iPhone

101 Ideas: Flying with Kids

Going on a flight with easily-bored children? This app wants to help you not tear your hair out. It offers 101 “fun activities/in-flight games” that the developers claim “all children will enjoy, from toddlers to young teenagers”. Which is a rather optimistic view of young teenagers, but worth a try.
iPhone

Calpol

Talking of ways to keep children quiet on flights… No, as good parents know, child medicines don’t make kids drowsy nowadays. It’s all about the pain relief. Now the makers of Calpol have an official app, including a dosage diary, local pharmacy and hospital info, and lullabies to play to poorly children.
iPhone

9mm HD

Gameloft has ported its grizzled-cop action title 9mm HD to RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook – the latest in an impressive flow of quality games for the tablet. Here, you’re hunting down a gang leader before he hunts you down, with guns all over the shop.
BlackBerry PlayBook

Crumbly

This may be US-only at the moment, but it’s an interesting spin on social location. The app aggregates check-ins and photos from friends on Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram with a view to showing you the most interesting places to visit in your current location. Or, as it styles itself, a “friend-powered compass”.
iPhone


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Apps Rush: Moshi Monsters, Tom Daley, Telmap Navigator, Peppa Pig, Tivoli Radio and more

What’s new on the app stores on Monday 21 May 2012

A selection of 26 new and notable apps for you today:

Moshi Monsters: Moshlings

There have been a couple of branded Moshi Monsters apps before, but this is the first actually published by Mind Candy, the maker of the hugely popular online world for children. It’s focused on the Moshlings characters from the site, with more than 60 to personalise with digital stickers and share with friends and family.
iPhone / iPad

Tom Daley Dive 2012

In good time for the Olympic Games, british diver Tom Daley has his own iPhone and iPad game, released by Chelsea Apps Factory and sponsored by Adidas. It’s a 3D diving game where you twist, duck, somersault and bellyflop into a pool. Well, three of the four.
iPhone / iPad

Telmap Navigator

Telmap has launched a free version of its satnav software Telmap Navigator for BlackBerry, with listings and reviews built in, as well as support for RIM’s BBM messaging service.
BlackBerry

Peppa Pig – Polly Parrot

Peppa Pig makes her second official app-earance on Android, courtesy of P2 Games. Here, you get four mini-games and a digital sticker book to play with, including the Talking Parrot game familiar from Peppa’s Nintendo DS outing.
Android

Tivoli Radio

Radio manufacturer Tivoli Audio has launched its own iPhone app, which offers a curated selection of streaming radio stations from around the world, from Swiss jazz to Irish folk.
iPhone

Shop Scan Save

Shop Scan Save is the latest shopping app aiming to save money – in this case, with a UK focus. The app offers deals on brands from KitKat and Lenor through to Lurpak, Jack Daniels and Bacardi Breezer, with 22,500 stores in its network.
Android / iPhone

Look & Learn: Animals Vol. 1

National Geographic has launched an app aimed at children, encouraging “a child’s awareness of the natural world through beautiful photography, animal sounds, and age-appropriate learning games”. The three mini-games are Animal Bounce, Animal Match and Animal Words.
iPhone / iPad

CNET Global

Technology news site CNET has a new Android app providing its news, videos and podcasts from around the world, as well as product reviews, comments, user reviews and social features.
Android

Everyme

Soon we’ll need a private social network for all the private social networking app. The latest looking to ‘do a Path’ is Everyme, which says it believes “most stories are meant to be shared with your closest friends and family, not with 500 random acquaintances”. Which means “intimate Circles” of contacts.
Android

Nectar

UK loyalty scheme Nectar has ported its official app to Windows Phone according to WPCentral, although I can’t get the Windows Phone Marketplace link to work. If it is live, expect a working link from Nectar’s official apps webpage, which is the link above.
Windows Phone

CNNMoney for iPad

CNNMoney has launched a new iPad app offering stock prices, personalised news feeds, alerts and business/financial news, joining its existing smartphone version.
iPad

23snaps

Photography app 23snaps wants to help parents capture shots of their children and share them securely with friends and family – essentially a private social network for baby snaps. With the added benefit (possibly) that you won’t be spamming your non-baby-interested friends on Facebook…
iPhone

Bejeweled HD

PopCap Games has released an all-new version of its Bejeweled puzzle game for iPad, with four modes of jewel-swapping action and visuals optimised for the latest iPad’s Retina display.
iPad

ClickCard*

Android app ClickCard* is the latest attempt at taking business cards digital, with a card that can open the phone dialler, email, Google Maps, websites, and social networking profiles.
Android

Chelsea FC

Just in time for the club’s Champions League triumph, Chelsea FC has an official app for Nokia phones, developed by InfoMedia. It includes news, videos, live match stats and commentary, and live streaming audio from games.
Nokia

Lee Clow’s Beard

Cult Twitter spoof Lee Clow’s Beard now has its own app, allowing you to “hear the beard” or “be the beard” – said beard belonging to advertising industry legend Lee Clow.
iPhone

Total Commander

One for power Android users, this: a smartphone version of desktop file-manager software Total Commander, with an impressive spread of file management features, and languages support.
Android

Orient-Express Traveller

The latest travel-browsing app for iPad comes from the Orient-Express, without a murder in sight. This focuses on tourist hotspots with photography, travel tips and social sharing features.
iPad

Tweetraffic

Tweetraffic is a nice idea, although it will need a lot of people using it to be at its most useful. It’s about sending and receiving traffic info, including reports of jams, accidents and roadworks for other users to see on a map.
iPhone

CrossDJ

The music technology team behind the CrossDJ software have launched an iPad version, promising a blend of professional-grade mixing features and intuitive controls.
iPad

Hojoki

With numerous cloud services entering the market, how to keep track of all your stuff on remote servers? Hojoki wants to help, promising to “make all your cloud apps work as one”. That means hooking into Google Docs, Dropbox, Evernote, Basecamp and other services.
Android

Pro Zombie Soccer

iOS undead-football hit Pro Zombie Soccer has made the jump to Android. “if you want an excuse to kick a soccer ball into space, realign an orbital weapons platform and launch a death-ray to explode the heads of the zombies sneaking into your soccer field – then THIS IS IT…”
Android

Gardeners’ World Magazine – 100 Best Plants

The BBC’s flagship gardening magazine has a new iPad spin-off: a selection of 100 best plants with all the information you’ll need to make them flourish in your own back-patch.
iPad

Convo

Convo is an app for Android smartphones and tablets offering a business-focused mobile social network, designed for teams to communicate while on the go. Looking for a piece of Yammer’s enterprise action, in other words.
Android

SmugMug

Photography community SmugMug has a new Windows Phone app, helping people to browse the day’s most popular images, and log in to see their own, and share shots directly from their handset.
Windows Phone

Apptoyz Alien Attack

The latest appcessory action comes from this Android game, which is designed to be used with the gun-shaped Apptoyz Appblaster peripheral. The game is an augmented-reality shoot ‘em up with hosts of aliens to shoot.
Android


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Apps Rush: London 2012 Official Join In App, Schemer, Facebook Pages Manager, Score! Classic Goals and more

What’s new on the app stores on Thursday 17 May 2012

A selection of 21 new and notable apps for you today:

London 2012: Official Join In App

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG for short) has launched its first app: an official guide to joining in this summer’s sporting celebrations. That means event listings, the route of the Olympic torch relays, maps and updates during the Games. It’s iPhone at the moment, but I’d suspect Android and maybe other platforms will be following shortly.
iPhone

Schemer

Google’s Schemer social app has made the leap from Android to iPhone, providing a way to plan “schemes” with friends – basically “doing more awesome stuff” and telling friends about it. Naturally, it ties into the Google+ social network.
iPhone

Facebook Pages Manager

At the time of writing (8am BST) this is only available in the New Zealand App Store, but that generally means it’ll roll out around the world as the day goes on. It’s Facebook’s new iPhone app for people who run Pages on the social network – a separate app to post, monitor activity and dig into Insights analytics.
iPhone

Roamz

Here’s an app jumping from iPhone to Android. Roamz describes itself as “social goggles for the real world”, identifying places, events and activities around your current location, pulling in data from Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Twitter.
Android

Score! Classic Goals

Developer First Touch Publishing makes very impressive football games for iOS. Its new title is a different spin though: a “soccer based puzzle game” that challenges you to recreate famous goals from the last four decades. There are 80 goals at launch.
iPhone / iPad

Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II

Sega’s speedy hedgehog returns to iOS in the latest retro remake for Apple devices, with Sonic and squirrelly chum Tales taking on Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic. Sega says this game has an “all-new engine” to make the action smoother than previous titles.
iPhone / iPad

iZettle

Mobile payments startup Square has been making waves in the US, but in Europe we have our own equivalent: iZettle. It lets retailers take card payments through an app, and has just launched in private beta in the UK. A form in the app lets you request an invite.
iPhone / iPad

Thirst for Twitter

There’s plenty of blog buzz around new iPad app Thirst for Twitter, which aims to suck down all the tweets from the people you follow, then highlight the most interesting and relevant ones in digest format. It promises to “tell you what you’ve missed and bubble up what’s interesting to you”.
iPad

Kids of the Ummah

This children’s iPad app is all about “exploring the global Muslim community”, through a range of 26 cute avatar characters who explain the alphabet, Muslim names and cities in English and Arabic.
iPad

Sky News Arabia

Arabic-language TV news channel Sky News Arabia has a new app rolling out on major smartphones, offering videos, news, photos and – soon – live streaming. It’s the work of London agency Grapple.
Android / BlackBerry / iPhone / Nokia

Fotopedia Morocco

Photographic service Fotopedia has a new, lavish iOS app providing a tourist’s guide to Morocco. That means full-screen images of cities, scenery and culture from photographer Jacques Bravo, plus interactive maps and a trip builder feature to plan visits.
iPhone / iPad

Cousin Jacks: Cornish Mining

If British staycations are more your thing, how about wandering around Cornwall looking at mines? Cousin Jacks: Cornish Mining is a polished tourism app focused on the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, with audio trails, walks and maps.
iPhone

Awareness! for Etymotic Pro

Excellent audio app Awareness! is about automatically adjusting your headphone volume based on noise from the external world – for example a phone ringing, car beeping or person asking you something. Now there’s a separate version optimised for the Etymotic Pro headsets.
iPhone

FlexiShareTrade

This is a new app for retail investors, helping them track and analyse shares in real-time, digging deep into stats from the major markets. Heatmaps, charts and a Twitter feed add to the appeal.
iPhone

Circus Atari

Gaming industry veteran Atari is retooling itself as a mobile publisher, with Circus Atari its latest release. This involves launching a clown from a cannon, popping balloons and grabbing coins and power-ups as he flies up into the air.
iPhone / iPad

Facade

One social networking app to rule them all? Facade pulls in all the social networks with the aim of helping people view updates and post their own from one place.
Android

The Berenstain Bears and the Big Spelling Bee

Oceanhouse Media’s latest book-app for children starring the Berenstain Bears is all about spelling, and the company is offering a free teacher’s guide on its website to help educators get the most out of the app if using it in their classes.
iPhone / iPad

Let’s Color!

This “living, breathing coloring book” is the work of Lazoo, whose impressive Squiggles app I covered earlier this month. Here, kids get to colour in 18 digital pages, with 16 more available in-app. Once done, images start to animate, and can be saved to show family and friends.
iPad

Color Vacuum

More colours for kids here, from new developer Curious Hat. The idea is to get children looking at colours in the world around them, and capturing them using the iPhone or iPad’s camera.
iPhone / iPad

Boom Bah

It’s a busy day for new kid-apps. This iPad book is based on the printed Boom Bah, aimed at 2-5 year-olds. It tells the story of an animal band, with children able to tap on the screen to “play the tings, bangs, clangs, bangs, bongs” and other sounds.
iPad

Scotland Yard

Ravensburger has turned its popular Scotland Yard board game into an iOS version, as you try to find the missing Mister X in London. Inventive features include multiplayer with voice chat.
iPhone / iPad


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Apps Pitch: Build Cars with Edward and Arthur

Developer David Sjölander on his creative racing game for children

Our second Apps Pitch comes from Swedish developer David Sjölander, explaining his Build Cars with Edward and Arthur children’s app.

What’s your app called and what does it do?

Build Cars with Edward and Arthur is a creative game where kids can create thousands of fun cars and then test-drive them on the race track. Depending on what parts you use the car will behave different when driving, you’ll need better tires to splash through mud, bigger engine to go faster etc.

While playing you’ll collects stars that unlocks more car parts, and even additional race tracks with new challenges! You can also gain stars by building certain complete cars, or by building a very light car that can cross an old wooden bridge.

This game is for children 3-7 years old. While the app does contain some text, it is designed to be played by non-readers. The goal for me was to create a game that parents will enjoy playing together with their children.

What devices is it on, and what are your plans?

It’s currently available for both iPads and iPhones. I’d be happy to create versions for other platforms but those platforms are a lot more complicated with lots of different marketplaces and screen sizes.

What’s the business model and why have you chosen it?

The game cost $2, and has no advertising links, social media connections or in-app-purchases. I would probably get more money if I used in-app-purchases to unlock more car parts, but as a parent I don’t like that model in games targeted at children.

What’s innovative about the app – what sets it apart?

I’ve put a lot of work in creating a game that is both creative and fun with quite advanced car-building, while still being intuitive for small children.

I also hope that both children and parents see all the work and love I’ve put into the graphics. I tried to create something feels different from most iPhone games, and I’m very happy with how the game turned out graphically.

What’s the competition – who else is out there in this area?

There are lots of apps for children on the App Store but, only a few good ones. I’ve got very positive reviews so far so I’m confident that the game is good, but it’s still a major challenge to break through the noise in the App Store.

As a Swedish game developer you may get great reviews and sales in Sweden, but it’s extremely hard to reach parents in other countries.

Tell us more about the company behind it

While I’ve been building games for a long time, this is my first app of my own. I recently moved to the countryside on the Swedish island Gotland, and I guess the team consists of me and my two children.

The developent basically worked like this: in the morning my four-year-old gave me assigments, like which new parts he wanted etc. When coming back from kindergarten he tested the game and hopefully gave it thumbs-up. He was a very strict project manager…

What are your future plans?

If there is big demand I’m open to create more car parts for the game. In the future I’d like to create more games with Edward and Arthur and develop their personalities a bit more than I did in this game.

I originally created the characters for a children’s book and would still love to see that printed. Both me and my children have lots of ideas of other games that we want to create!


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Apps Rush: Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter, Apptivity Hot Wheels, Solitaire by Backflip, Songify, The Register and more

What’s new on the app stores on Wednesday 16 May 2012

A selection of 17 new and notable apps today:

Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter

As wonderful creative apps for kids go, this new music app is… well, wonderfully creative. It involves painting sounds onto the screen using fingers, then playing them back. Like a pixelly sequencer for children, with instrumental sounds taken from around the world.
iPad

Apptivity Hot Wheels

Mattel has followed in the wheel-tracks of Disney’s Cars 2 AppMates, releasing an iPad app that involves placing a toy car with special contact points onto the tablet, then driving around virtual environments. Nine challenges and Game Center functionality are included.
iPad

Solitaire by Backflip

Games like Paper Toss and NinJump have made Backflip Studios one of the biggest indie names in free-to-play mobile gaming. Now it’s turned its attention to a traditional card game. Achievements, different themes and “many ways to cheat” are all included.
Android

Songify

Music apps developer Smule has ported Songify from iPhone to Android. The app – originally developed by startup Khush before it was bought by Smule – gets you to speak into the microphone, then turns your words into an Auto-Tune-style song. A novelty? Yes, but on iPhone it’s notched up 9m downloads and 120m created songs so far.
Android

The Register

IT website The Register has more than 6m monthly readers, and now it’s got a Windows Phone app for… Well, for whatever proportion of those people own Windows Phones.
Windows Phone

Total Euro 2012

I’m battening down the hatches in anticipation of a deluge of Euro 2012 football apps – 98% of which will be more Wolves than Man City in terms of quality. Total Euro 2012 is at the top end of the table though: very detailed stats about teams, matches and players, with the promise of live updates throughout the tournament. A Statto’s delight.
iPhone

geoDefense Swarm

Billing itself as “The Thinking Man’s Tower Defense”, this is the sequel to popular game geoDefense, offering eye-blistering neon visuals and 30 levels to work your way through. Although it supports Microsoft’s Xbox Live community, interestingly its Windows Phone Marketplace listing also boasts of its integration of the cross-platform OpenFeint service.
Windows Phone

Potty Time with Elmo

Sesame Street’s latest iOS app aims to help parents and children with their potty training. It’s a book-app in which loveable monster Elmo potty trains his own toy Baby David, while providing animated stickers, puzzles and five potty-related songs.
iPhone / iPad

Esquire’s The Big Black Book Spring 2012

Esquire has launched an iPad app for its latest “style manual for successful men”, filled with products, how-to guides and a guide to “the best barbers, cobblers, and all-purpose neck savers on the most stylish street in the world”. Wherever that is.
iPad

Top Gear Magazine

BBC Worldwide’s Top Gear Magazine is the latest title to debut on Apple’s Newsstand, selling single issues or 6/12-month subscriptions. It looks like a pretty straight digitisation of the print mag, rather than throwing in Wired-style interactive bells and multimedia whistles.
iPad

AboutOne

There’s a big buzz around this new Windows Phone app, which organises memories, milestones and other information around your family and contacts lists. “A remote control for your life,” promises its blurb.
Windows Phone

Python Bytes 3

Third in the series of £1.99 apps gathering the best sketches from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, this focuses on the show’s third series, with the same shake-to-switch UI for accessing new clips.
iPhone

Frisky

Electronic music site Frisky has a new app for iPhone, promising two channels of mixes from top DJs: Frisky and Chill. The mood varies according to the name. It supports low or high quality streams depending on connection, plays nice with Apple’s AirPlay, and will include exclusives from the likes of Dave Seaman, Hybrid and Nick Warren.
iPhone

Bloomingdale’s Big Brown Bag

US-only, for obvious reasons, this is an app for retail chain Bloomingdale’s, helping people to shop on their iPhone, find their nearest store, manage wedding lists and get special offers. In-store barcode-scanning features are also included.
iPhone

Directional

Looking for a new quirky puzzler to while away the hours on iPhone? Directional is well worth a look: it’s a block-clearing game with swiping controls, and two gameplay modes to explore.
iPhone

Waviary

Waviary started life as an “interactive musical artwork” for iOS, but unlike many of its rivals, has now made the leap to Android too – good news for Google-owning creatives. Multi-touch controls promise “lush ambient soundscapes”, as well as a mode that runs itself while you run.
Android

Mynet Travel

Cancellations, delays and disruption on the UK rail network? Perish the thought! But if this is something you encounter regularly, the Mynet Travel app may at least clue you in on what’s wrong, providing live information and the ability to share details with other travellers.
Android / iPhone


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